Have you ever played Geometry Wars? It’s an Xbox360 mini-game shooter, and it is funking AWESOMESAUCE!
A tale of what happens when you sit down to do some serious learning, but find yourself dreaming of an Xbox Live Arcade game instead.
Geometry Wars: The Movie (kind of) by Alex Kobbs
•March 25, 2010 • Leave a CommentThe Top 20 5-Second Films
•March 24, 2010 • Leave a CommentI was actually pleasantly surprised at how entertaining these 5-second films were. Uproxx and 5-Second Films compiled the twenty best 5-second films in one video:
“The rules are simple: 2 seconds of beginning titles, 5 seconds of film, 1 second of end titles. If you take umbrage with these 5sfs running at an actual length of 8 seconds, we can only assume youre no fun at dinner parties.”
Children ride 40mph ZIP WIRE a quarter of a mile high to get to classes each day!
•March 24, 2010 • 3 CommentsMeet nine-year-old Daisy Mora as she prepares to throw herself over the abyss, more than 1,300ft above the roaring Rio Negro in Colombia to get to school:
School run: Nine-year-old Daisy Mora makes the trip every day to get to lessons, with her five-year-old brother riding in a cloth bag.
Hair-raising commute: Villagers hook themselves to steel wires and slide half a mile at 40mph to get to the nearest town
Personally I think this is awesome and it looks like fun. Dangerous, awesome fun.
Attaching herself to an old and rusted pulley system she drops over the edge before plummeting at 40mph along a zip wire to the opposite bank half a mile away – a vertigo-inducing journey she has to take every day to get to school.
For the handful of families living in the area, 40 miles southeast of the capital Bogota, the 12 steel cables that connect one side of the valley to the other are their only access to the outside world.
German explorer Alexander von Humboldt was the first Westerner to observe the unusual rope system in 1804.
They were traditionally made of hemp, but steels cables were installed with the advent of logging in the surrounding rainforest. When this was made illegal settlers turned their hand to farming and cattle raising.
Today, the cables are still the only transport available to those living in the area.
Farmers use them to transport goods to and from the closest town and, for children like Daisy and her five-year-old brother Jamid, it is how they get to school.
Jamid is too young to safely ride the wire on his own, so she has to carry him with her in a jute bag, controlling their speed with a wooden fork.
Photographer and author Christoph Otto, who took these amazing pictures, suspended himself above the valley on one of the cables to capture people making the remarkable journey. [via dailymail]
The Exotic ‘Kiwano’ Fruit
•March 24, 2010 • Leave a CommentLook at this amazing fruit! It’s called Kiwano which means ‘Horned Melon’ or ‘African horned cucumber’ and it’s said to taste like a mix between cucumber and kiwifruit. I’ve never wanted to taste something so bad!
Real Life Lemmings [street art]
•March 23, 2010 • Leave a CommentI have Lemmings Tribes on the Amiga …I LOVE THAT GAME!
Lemmings marching across a rail underpass in Copenhagen, Denmark, as seen by reader Staffan O. Note the exit over the second light.
Real-Life Portal Gun
•March 23, 2010 • Leave a CommentFreddie Wong’s (real bike hero guy) Real-Life Portal Gun doesn’t reveal anything new to GLaDOS vets, but it does explain why inter-spatial weaponry in the workplace will make you go GLa-DOH!
Aperture Science FINALLY shipped my prototype portal gun! My roommates don’t seem too impressed though. Oh well it’s super fun!
Be Loyal To The One You Love – “Their kisses may be sweet, but it’s not right to cheat.”
•March 22, 2010 • Leave a CommentReal Life ‘Modern Warfare 2’ Level
•March 22, 2010 • Leave a CommentRamirez! Checkout this AWESOME full-scale replica of “The Pit”, Modern Warfare 2’s training area:
In what has to be the ultimate homage to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – we built ‘The Pit’ level. It took over a week to build, to the level’s exact specifications.
Better still, with me on my Xbox 360 version of the game, I challenged an actual Special Forces Soldier to a race from the start of the level to the end, taking down targets (and avoiding civies!)
Live bullets and genuine heart stopping action in my most amazing gaming challenge ever!
Big deal, some people in Brazil built the favela level years ago… hehe… Ahem
Next-Gen Game Cereals [mashup]
•March 21, 2010 • 1 CommentWhat if video games made the crossover to cereals? Why not I say! Here’s an example of what might be, courtesy of Kotaku:
“Moon Prism Power!!!” Disney Princesses meet Sailor Moon [mashup]
•March 18, 2010 • 1 CommentThis goes without saying, but I was a weird child growing up (by weird I mean awesome of course) and yes I did watch this guilty-pleasure of a girly cartoon — I watched ALL the cartoons! Here are various Disney characters dressed up as the Sailor Moon cast:
From left to right: Pocahontas as Sailor Pluto, Mulan as Sailor Mercury, Belle as Sailor Jupiter, Esmeralda as Sailor Neptune, Madellaine (Hunchback of Notre Dame II) as Sailor Uranus, Aurora as Sailor Venus, Melody as Sailor Chibi Moon, Ariel as Sailor Moon and Jasmine as Sailor Mars.
I can’t say I understand DeviantARTist, manony’s motivation for doing it but well done.
30 Things Porn Has Taught Us [SFW]
•March 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment
I’ve got one: Batman The Guy Always Wins – Always.
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